Systems and methods for device push provisioning

ABSTRACT

Techniques for provisioning access data may include receiving, by a first application installed on a communication device, user input selecting an account to provision to a second application installed on the communication device. The first application may invoke the second application and send a session identifier (ID) to the second application. The second application may send a user ID associated with the second application, a device ID, and the session ID to the first application. The first application may then generate encrypted provisioning request data and send the encrypted provisioning request data to the second application. The second application may send the encrypted provisioning request data to a remote server computer to request access data that can be used to access a resource. The second application may receive the access data provided by the remote server computer based on validation of the encrypted provisioning request data.

CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED CASES

This application claims the benefit of priority to U.S. ProvisionalApplication No. 62/276,167, filed Jan. 7, 2016, the entire content ofwhich is herein incorporated by reference for all purposes.

BACKGROUND

Communication devices can be provisioned with access data to allow auser of the communication device to obtain access to a resource. Forinstance, a remote server associated with the resource provider cantransmit the requisite access data to be loaded onto the communicationdevice. In some cases, a communication device can have more than oneapplication installed on the device that allows the user to access theresource. For example, a communication device can have multiple emailapplications that can each be used to access a particular email account.As another example, a communication device can have multiple transactionapplications that can each be used to conduct a transaction using aparticular account.

In order to provision each application with the access data, a user mayhave to manually enter account identifying information into eachindividual application to identify the user's account associated withthe resource provider. In addition, each application may require aseparate authentication process to provision the access data. This canbe a cumbersome process that adds unwanted friction to the userexperience.

Some conventional systems may allow one application to request theaccess data be provisioned onto another application. For example, afirst application may request an authentication code from a remoteserver associated with the resource provider, and provide theauthentication code to a second application installed on thecommunication device. Thereafter, the second application may send theauthentication code to the remote server to request the access data.However, such systems may have a security risk in that the access datatransmitted from the remote server to the communication device can besusceptible to interception by an unauthorized party. If an unauthorizedparty comes into possession of the access data, the unauthorized partymay use the access data to access the resource without permission fromthe user.

Embodiments of the invention address these and other problemsindividually and collectively.

BRIEF SUMMARY

Embodiments of the invention can include systems and methods whichprovide techniques for provisioning access data from a first applicationto a second application installed on a communication device.

Some embodiments of the invention are directed to a push provisioningmethod. The method may include receiving, by a first applicationinstalled on a communication device, after a user successfullyauthenticates to the first application, user input selecting an accountto provision to a second application installed on the communicationdevice,. The method may also include, in response to receiving theselection of the account to provision, invoking the second applicationby the first application and may also include additionally sending asession identifier (ID) to the second application. The first applicationmay use the session ID to accurately track and associate the data sentby the second application, with the user authenticated in the firstapplication.

The method may further include sending, by the second application, auser ID associated with the second application, a device ID, and thesession ID to the first application. The method may additionally includegenerating, by the first application, encrypted provisioning requestdata including an account ID of the account to provision, the user ID,and the device ID provided by the second application. The method mayfurther include sending, by the first application, the encryptedprovisioning request data to the second application. The method may alsoinclude sending, by the second application, the encrypted provisioningrequest data to a remote server computer, along with the user ID and thedevice ID associated with the user in the second application. The remoteserver computer may utilize the user ID, the device ID and the accountID of the second application (requestor) to validate against the userID, the device ID and the account ID provided by the first application,which are included inside the encrypted portion of the request, ensuringthat the end to end exchange of data is secure and is made accessibleonly to the specified user. The method may further include receiving, bythe second application, access data provided by the remote servercomputer based on validation of the encrypted provisioning request data.The method may also include provisioning, by the second application, theaccess data onto the second application.

Some embodiments of the invention are directed to a communication deviceconfigured to perform the above-noted method.

These and other embodiments of the invention are described in furtherdetail below.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a system according to some embodimentsof the invention.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a communication device according to someembodiments of the invention.

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a remote server computer according tosome embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 4 illustrates a flow diagram illustrating a process flow accordingto some embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 5 illustrates a flow chart illustrating a process flow according tosome embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 6 illustrates a block diagram of a building access system accordingto some embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 7 illustrates a block diagram of a transaction processing systemaccording to some embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 8 illustrates a block diagram of a computing system according tosome embodiments of the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Embodiments of the invention can include systems and methods whichprovide techniques for provisioning access data from a first applicationto a second application installed on a communication device. The systemsand methods can provide an improved experience for users and partiesinvolved in the provisioning process by allowing one or moreapplications residing on the communication device to push access datasecurely to one or more other applications residing on the communicationdevice. In some embodiments, the Identification and Verification (ID&V)process for authenticating the user of one application (e.g., the firstapplication) can be leveraged to provision the access data to anotherapplication (e.g., the second application) such that the user can avoidentering information required for access data provisioning in eachindividual application residing on the mobile device. As such, anaddition step up process to authenticate the user can be avoided andthereby reducing friction in the user experience. In some embodiments,the access data being provisioned can be bound to the communicationdevice such that the access data cannot be used with anothercommunication device. In other words, once the access data isprovisioned to a particular communication device, any attempts to usethe access data from a different communication device to obtain accessto the resource associated with the access data will be denied,

Prior to discussing embodiments of the invention, descriptions of someterms may be helpful in understanding embodiments of the invention.

A “communication device” may be any electronic device that can beoperated by a user to communicate with another device. A communicationdevice may also provide remote communication capabilities to a network.Examples of remote communication capabilities include using a mobile(cellular) network, wireless data network (e.g., 3G, 4G or similarnetworks), Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, or any other wireless or wired communicationmedium that may provide access to a network such as the Internet or aprivate network. Examples of communication devices include mobile phones(e.g., cellular phones), PDAs, tablet computers, net books, laptopcomputers, personal music players, hand-held specialized readers,wearable devices (e.g., watches), vehicles (e.g., cars), smartappliances, or other network connected devices, etc. A communicationdevice may comprise any suitable hardware and software for performingsuch functions, and may also include multiple devices or components(e.g., when a device has remote access to a network by tethering toanother device—i.e., using the other device as a relay—both devicestaken together may be considered a single communication device).

“Authentication data” may include any data suitable for authenticating auser or communication device. Authentication data may be obtained from auser or a communication device that is operated by the user. Examples ofauthentication data obtained from a user may include PIN (personalidentification number), username/password, biometric data, etc. Examplesof authentication data that may be obtained from a communication devicemay be include device serial numbers, hardware secure elementidentifiers, device fingerprints, phone numbers, IMEI numbers, etc.

A “remote server computer” may include a powerful computer or cluster ofcomputers accessible via a network. For example, the server computer canbe a large mainframe, a minicomputer cluster, or a group of serversfunctioning as a unit. In one example, the server computer may be adatabase server coupled to a Web server. The server computer may becoupled to a database and may include any hardware, software, otherlogic, or combination of the preceding for servicing the requests fromone or more client computers. The server computer may comprise one ormore computational apparatuses and may use any of a variety of computingstructures, arrangements, and compilations for servicing the requestsfrom one or more communication devices. In some embodiments, a remoteserver computer can be operated by or associated with a resourceprovider such as a service provider (e.g., a web service provider),transit or building operator, ticketing operator, payment processingnetwork or organization, etc.

“Access data” may include any suitable data that can be used to access aresource or create data that can access a resource. In some embodiments,access data may include credentials (e.g., PIN, username/password,passcode, etc.) or account information that can be used to access theresource. For example, the access data can be login information used foraccessing a web service. As another example, the access data can beaccount information for a payment account. Account information mayinclude an account identifier such as a primary account number (PAN),verification values (e.g., CVV, CVV2, dCVV, dCVV2), or other accountdata that can be used to verify an account. In some embodiments, accessdata may be data that can be used to activate account data. For example,in some cases, account information may be stored on a communicationdevice, but may not be activated until specific information is receivedby the communication device. This specific information may becharacterized as access information in some embodiments. In someembodiments, access data can include data that can be used to access arestricted location. Such information may be, for example, ticketinformation for an event, data to access a building, transit ticketinformation, etc. In some embodiments, the access data can bepseudo-credentials or pseudo account information such as a token thatcan be used as a substitute for the real credentials or real accountidentifier. In contrast to a real credentials or real account identifierwhich can be used from any device to access a resource, access data inthe form of pseudo-credentials or pseudo account information can bebound to a particular communication device such that the access data canonly be used from the particular communication device to access theresource.

A “token” may include a substitute identifier for some information. Forexample, a transaction token may include an identifier for a transactionaccount that is a substitute for an account identifier, such as aprimary account number (PAN). For instance, a token may include a seriesof alphanumeric characters that may be used as a substitute for anoriginal account identifier. For example, a token “4900 0000 0000 0001”may be used in place of a PAN “4147 0900 0000 1234.” In someembodiments, a token may be “format preserving” and may have a numericformat that conforms to the account identifiers used in existingtransaction processing networks (e.g., ISO 8583 financial transactionmessage format). In some embodiments, a token may be used in place of aPAN to initiate, authorize, settle or resolve a transaction. The tokenmay also be used to represent the original credential in other systemswhere the original credential would typically be provided. In someembodiments, a token value may be generated such that the recovery ofthe original PAN or other account identifier from the token value maynot be computationally derived. Further, in some embodiments, the tokenformat may be configured to allow the entity receiving the token toidentify it as a token and recognize the entity that issued the token.

An “application” may be a computer program executable from acommunication device that is used to perform one or more tasks. In someembodiments, performing a task may involve using access data to access aresource. Examples of applications may include a browser application toaccess the Internet, an email application to access an email account, atransit application to access a restricted area, a transactionapplication to access a payment or banking account to conduct atransaction, etc.

A “digital wallet” application can be an application that storesinformation that can be used in a variety of transactions. For example,a digital wallet application can store user profile information, paymentinformation (e.g. PANs or primary account numbers, payment tokens (i.e.,PAN substitutes), verification values such as CVVs, etc.), bank accountinformation, and/or the like and can be used in a variety oftransactions, such as but not limited to eCommerce, social networks,money transfer/personal payments, mobile commerce, proximity payments,gaming, and/or the like for retail purchases, digital goods purchases,utility payments, purchasing games or gaming credits from gamingwebsites, transferring funds between users, and/or the like.

A “timestamp” may include data relating to any suitable time. Forexample, a timestamp may be a time, date, month, year, or any suitablecombination of the above. The timestamp element could also be derivedfrom the time, date, month, year, or any suitable combination of theabove. An encrypted timestamp element may be a data element that mayinclude an encrypted time, date, month, year, and/or suitablecombination of the above.

An “access device” may be any suitable device for obtaining access to aresource. An access device may generally be located in any suitablelocation, such as at the entrance of a restricted area or at a locationof a merchant. An access device may be in any suitable form. Someexamples of access devices include POS devices, cellular phones, PDAs,personal computers (PCs), tablet PCs, hand-held specialized readers,set-top boxes, electronic cash registers (ECRs), automated tellermachines (ATMs), virtual cash registers (VCRs), kiosks, securitysystems, access systems, Websites, and the like. An access device mayuse any suitable contact or contactless mode of operation to send orreceive data from, or associated with, a payment device and/or a usercommunication device.

An “issuer” may typically refer to a business entity (e.g., a bank) thatmaintains an account for a user that is associated with a communicationdevice such as an account enrolled in a mobile application installed ona portable communication device. An issuer may also issue accountparameters associated with the account to a communication device. Anissuer may be associated with a host system that performs some or all ofthe functions of the issuer on behalf of the issuer.

An “authorization request message” may be an electronic message that issent to a payment processing network and/or an issuer of a payment cardto request authorization for a transaction. An authorization requestmessage according to some embodiments may comply with ISO 8583, which isa standard for systems that exchange electronic transaction informationassociated with a payment made by a consumer using a payment device orpayment account. The authorization request message may include an issueraccount identifier that may be associated with a payment device orpayment account. An authorization request message may also compriseadditional data elements corresponding to “identification information”including, by way of example only: a service code, a CVV (cardverification value), a dCVV (dynamic card verification value), anexpiration date, etc. An authorization request message may also comprise“transaction information,” such as any information associated with acurrent transaction, such as the transaction amount, merchantidentifier, merchant location, etc., as well as any other informationthat may be utilized in determining whether to identify and/or authorizea transaction.

An “authorization response message” may be an electronic message replyto an authorization request message generated by an issuing financialinstitution or a payment processing network. The authorization responsemessage may include, by way of example only, one or more of thefollowing status indicators: Approval—transaction was approved;Decline—transaction was not approved; or Call Center—response pendingmore information, merchant must call the toll-free authorization phonenumber. The authorization response message may also include anauthorization code, which may be a code that a credit card issuing bankreturns in response to an authorization request message in an electronicmessage (either directly or through the payment processing network) tothe merchant's access device (e.g. POS equipment) that indicatesapproval of the transaction. The code may serve as proof ofauthorization. As noted above, in some embodiments, a payment processingnetwork may generate or forward the authorization response message tothe merchant.

A “processor” may refer to any suitable data computation device ordevices. A processor may comprise one or more microprocessors workingtogether to accomplish a desired function. The processor may include CPUcomprises at least one high-speed data processor adequate to executeprogram components for executing user and/or system-generated requests.The CPU may be a microprocessor such as AMD's Athlon, Duron and/orOpteron; IBM and/or Motorola's PowerPC; IBM's and Sony's Cell processor;Intel's Celeron, Itanium, Pentium, Xeon, and/or XScale; and/or the likeprocessor(s).

A “memory” may be any suitable device or devices that can storeelectronic data. A suitable memory may comprise a computer readablemedium that stores instructions that can be executed by a processor toimplement a desired method. Examples of memories may comprise one ormore memory chips, disk drives, etc. Such memories may operate using anysuitable electrical, optical, and/or magnetic mode of operation.

A “key” may refer to a piece of information that is used in acryptographic algorithm to transform input data into anotherrepresentation. A cryptographic algorithm can be an encryption algorithmthat transforms original data into an alternate representation, or adecryption algorithm that transforms encrypted information back to theoriginal data. Examples of cryptographic algorithms may include tripledata encryption standard (TOES), data encryption standard (DES),advanced encryption standard (AES), etc.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a system according to some embodimentsof the invention. FIG. 1 shows a communication device 110 incommunication with a remote server computer 130. The communicationdevice 110 may store a first application 112 and a second application114.

The remote server computer 130 may be operated by or associated with aresource provider, and can be configured to provision the communicationdevice 110 with access data. It may include a processor and a computerreadable medium comprising code which causes the processor to performany suitable method associated with provisioning the communicationdevice 110 with access data. It may also maintain a database of accessdata and device identifiers (e.g., an IP or internet protocol address,serial number, IMEI number, or phone number, etc.) for variouscommunication devices provisioned with access data. In some embodiments,remote server computer 130 may provision access data to the firstapplication 112. Provisioning the first application 112 may require theuser to manually enter credentials used for the provisioning process(e.g., account information associated with the user of communicationdevice 110). Once provisioned with the access data, the firstapplication 112 may provide the access data to an access device 140 toobtain access to a resource. Access device 140 may forward the accessdata to remote server computer 130 for verification. In someembodiments, access device 140 can be part of remote server computer 130(e.g., if the resource being accessed is a web-based service provided byremote server computer 130).

In accordance with the techniques described herein, the firstapplication 112 can be used to push the access data to the secondapplication 114 installed on communication device 110. In someembodiments, provisioning the second application 114 can be done withoutrequiring the user to reenter the account information used for theprovisioning process because the user and the user's account has alreadybeen verified by the remote server computer 130 during provisioning ofthe first application 112. Once provisioned with the access data, thesecond application 114 may provide the access data to an access device140 independently from the first application 112 to obtain access to aresource.

Each of the entities in FIG. 1 may communicate through any suitablecommunication channel or communications network. A suitablecommunications network may be any one and/or the combination of thefollowing: a direct interconnection; the Internet; a Local Area Network(LAN); a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN); an Operating Missions as Nodeson the Internet (OMNI); a secured custom connection; a Wide Area Network(WAN); a wireless network (e.g., employing protocols such as, but notlimited to a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), I-mode, and/or thelike); and/or the like.

FIG. 2 illustrates a block diagram of a communication device 201,according to some embodiments. Communication device 201 may includedevice hardware 204 coupled to a memory 202. Device hardware 204 mayinclude a processor 205, a communications subsystem 209, use interface206, a display screen 207 (which may be part of user interface 206), andan optional contactless interface 208 (e.g., if communication device 201is a portable communication device or has wireless communicationfunctionalities). Processor 205 can be implemented as one or moreintegrated circuits (e.g., one or more single core or multicoremicroprocessors and/or microcontrollers), and is used to control theoperation of communication device 201. Processor 205 can execute avariety of programs in response to program code or computer-readablecode stored in memory 202, and can maintain multiple concurrentlyexecuting programs or processes. Communications subsystem 209 mayinclude one or more RF transceivers and/or connectors that can be usedby communication device 201 to communicate with other devices and/or toconnect with external networks. User interface 206 can include anycombination of input and output elements to allow a user to interactwith and invoke the functionalities of communication device 201. In someembodiments, display screen 207 may be part of user interface 206.

Contactless interface 208 may include one or more RF transceivers tointeract with a contactless reader of an access device to access aresource (e.g., to enter a restricted area, to conduct a transaction,etc.). In some embodiments, contactless interface 208 can be accessed byapplications in application environment 210 or operating system 220 tocommunicate with an access device. In some embodiments, display 207 canalso be part of contactless interface 208, and is used, for example, tocommunication with an access device using QR codes, bar codes, or otheroptical communication techniques, etc.

Memory 202 can be a non-transitory computer readable storage mediumimplemented using any combination of any number of non-volatile memories(e.g., flash memory) and volatile memories (e.g., DRAM, SRAM), or anyother computer readable storage medium, or a combination thereof media.Memory 202 may store a OS 220 and an application environment 210 whereone or more mobile applications (e.g., applications 212 and 214) to beexecuted by processor 205 reside.

According to some embodiments, the first application 212 can be anapplication associated with and/or provided by a resource provider, andthe first application 212 is used to access a resource provided by theresource provider. For example, the first application 212 can be atransit application used to access a restricted area provided by atransit or building operator, an issuer application used to conducttransactions using an account issued by the issuer, or a web-serviceapplication used to access a web-based service such as email,photo-sharing, social media, etc. provided by the web-based serviceprovider. When the user of communication device 201 installs the firstapplication 212, the user may initiate an enrollment process with aremote server computer to provision the first application 212 withaccess data 234 that is used to access the resource associated with theresource provider. The user may be requested to manually enter accountinformation such as a real account identifier to obtain access data 234.In some embodiments, the provisioned access data 234 can be used as asubstitute for the real account identifier to obtain access to theresource. For example, the first application 212 can provide theprovisioned access data 234 in the form of pseudo-credentials orpseudo-account identifier such as a token to an access device to gainaccess to the resource.

In some embodiments, the first application 212 may include anauthentication module 238 that is used to authenticate the user to usethe first application 212. For example, the authentication module 238may request the user to enter a PIN or other user identificationinformation to authenticate the user each time the user attempts to usethe first application 212. The authentication module 238 mayauthenticate the user locally at the communication device 201, or sendthe user identification information to a remote sever computer toauthenticate the user according to the identification and verification(ID&V) requirements of the resource provider.

The first application 212 may also include an encryption module 236 thatis used to encrypt sensitive data provided by the first application 236.For example, during installation or enrollment, the first application212 can be provided with a shared key or shared secret that is onlyknown to the first application 212 and the remote server computer. Thefirst application 212 can then encrypt communications intended for theremote server computer using the shared key or derivative keys derivedfrom the shared key or shared secret. The remote server computer canthen decrypt the communication using the shared key or derivative keysderived from the shared key or shared secret to verify that thecommunication originated from the first application 212. In someembodiments, encryption module 236 can be part of the OS 220, and thefirst application 212 may encrypt data by calling the encryption serviceprovided by OS 220.

In some embodiments, the first application 212 may encrypt data used ina provisioning request (e.g., a PAN) to push access data to anotherapplication. The encryption can be performed using JavaScript ObjectNotation (JSON) techniques such as JSON Web Encryption (JWE) or usingany other suitable encryption technique. The JWE techniques may use theshared key or shared secret to encrypt the data. In some embodiments,compact serialization style (e.g., elements separated by “.”) can beused. All fields are can be base 64 and URL Safe encoded. A 256-bitContent Encryption Key (CEK) can also be used. In some embodiments, anAES encryption algorithm such as AES-GCM-256KW algorithm for encryptionof the CEK, and a 96-bit Initialization Vector (IV) can be used. AnAuthentication Tag (e.g., e.g., 128-bits) can also be generated as anadditional output of the AES-GCM-256 encryption. String to byte andvice-versa conversions can be performed using UTF-8 charset.

Communication device 201 may also include a second application 214 thatis used to access the same resource accessible by the first application212. The second application 214 can be a third-party application that isprovided by an entity different from the resource provider. In someembodiments, the second application 214 can be a multi-operator transitapplication that can be used to access various restricted areasassociated with multiple transit or building operators, a digital walletapplication that can be used to conduct transactions using variousaccount issued by multiple issuers, or a multi-functional web-serviceapplication that can be used to access various web-based servicesprovided by multiple web-based service providers (e.g., a digitalassistant application that can access multiple email accounts of theuser, a social media application that can access multiple social mediaaccounts of the user, etc.).

According to some embodiments, the first application 212 can be used toprovision the access data for accessing the resource to the secondapplication 214. For example, the first application 212 can be used togenerate encrypted provisioning request data that is sent to the remoteserver computer to request access data for the second application 214.The provisioning request data can be encrypted based on a shared key orshared secret known only to the first application and the remote servercomputer. Since the first application 212 is provided by the resourceprovider, the first application 212 can be considered a trustedapplication by the remote server computer. If the remote server computeris able to properly decrypt the provisioning request data and thusverify that the provisioning request data was generated by the trustedfirst application 212, the remote serve can then generate the accessdata for provisioning to the second application 214. Both the accessdata provisioned to the first application 212 and the second application214 can be linked to the same account of the user, and thus allowingeither application to access the resource using the same account.

In some embodiments, although the access data provisioned to the secondapplication 214 is linked to the same account, the access dataprovisioned to the second application 214 can be the same or differentthan the access data provisioned to the first application 212. Forexample, the first application 212 can be provisioned with the realcredentials, whereas the second application 214 can be provisioned withpseudo-credentials or pseudo-account information (e.g., a token that isa substitute for a real account identifier). As another example, boththe first application 212 and the second application 214 can beprovisioned with the same pseudo-credentials or pseudo-accountinformation. As a further example, the first application 212 can beprovisioned with a first pseudo-credentials or a first pseudo-accountinformation, whereas the second application can be provisioned with asecond pseudo-credentials or second pseudo-account information that islinked to the same account. In this latter case, the access dataprovisioned to a particular application can be bound to the specificapplication such that the access data provisioned to one applicationcannot be used from another application. In some embodiments, the accessdata being provisioned can also be bound to the communication devicesuch that the access data cannot be used with another communicationdevice.

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of an remote server computer 300 accordingto some embodiments of the invention. Remote server computer 300 can beoperated by or associated with a resource provider that provides aresource accessible from a communication device. For example, remoteserver computer 300 can be associated with a web-service provider, atransit or building operator, an issuer, a payment processing network ororganization, etc. In some embodiments, the remote serve computer mayprovide and/or support an application (e.g., first application 112 or212) installed on a communication device that is used to access aresource associated with remote server computer 300. The remote servercomputer 300 may include a processor 310, which may be coupled to asystem memory 320 and an external communication interface 330. Acomputer readable medium 340 may also be operatively coupled to theprocessor 310. The computer readable medium 340 may comprise a number ofsoftware modules including a communication module 342, cryptographicmodule 346, a validation module 348, and an access data generationmodule 344.

The communication module 342 may comprise code that causes the processor310 to generate messages, forward messages, reformat messages, and/orotherwise communicate with other entities. For example, communicationmodule 342 can be used to facilitate communications between remoteserver computer 300 and a communication device operated by a user.Communication module 342 may also facilitate communications with accessdata database 350 (or with a separate computer that has access to accessdata database 350) to lookup access data information or to write accessdata generated by remote server computer 300 to the access data database350.

The cryptographic module 346 may include any suitableencryption/decryption algorithms to encrypt or decrypt data. Forexample, the cryptographic module 346 may decrypt an encrypted payloadreceived from a communication device. The encrypted payload may includeencrypted provisioning request data generated by an applicationinstalled on the communication device. Suitable data encryptionalgorithms may include DES, triple DES, AES, etc. The cryptographicmodule 346 may utilize symmetric or asymmetric encryption techniques toencrypt/decrypt and/or verify data. It may also store encryption keysthat can be used with such encryption algorithms. For example, a sharedkey or shared secret can be established between an application installedon the communication device and remote server computer 300, andencrypted communications originating from the application can bedecrypted using the shared key or shared secret, or a derivative keyderived from the shared information.

The validation module 348 may comprise code, which causes the processor310 to validate data from a user's communication device. For example,during provisioning of access data to a communication device, validationmodule 348 may verify the account information provided in theprovisioning request. This may involve verifying that the accountinformation corresponds to a valid account. Validation module 348 mayalso carry out an ID&V process to verify the user of the communicationdevice. For example, validation module 348 may verify a PIN or otheruser identifying information requested from the user to authenticate theuser. If the information is validated, validation module 348 may requestaccess data generation module 344 to generate access data forprovisioning to the communication device.

In some embodiments, validation module 348 can also be used to verifythe access data provided by the communication device when thecommunication device is attempting to access the resource associatedwith the service provider. For example, the communication device mayprovide access data previously provisioned on the communication deviceto an access device, and the access device may forward the access data(e.g., in an authorization request message) to remote server computer300. Upon receiving the access data, validation module 348 may query theaccess data database 350 to determine if the received access data isvalid. In some embodiments, if the access data is bound to thecommunication device, validation module may also verify that the accessdata was provided by the corresponding communication device. If thereceived access data is in the form of pseudo-credentials orpseudo-account information, validation module 344 may also retrieve thereal credentials or real account information from access data database350 if such information is needed to authorize access to the resource.

The access data generation module 344 may include code for implementingan algorithm to generate access data for provisioning to an applicationof a communication device. Access data generation module 344 can beinitiated by validation module 348 to generate the access data uponvalidation of the provisioning request data. In some embodiments, if theaccess data being provisioned is in the form of pseudo-credentials orpseudo-account information (e.g., a token), the access data can begenerated randomly or be based on the actual credentials or accountinformation. In some embodiments, the access data can be generated byselecting the access data from a list of predefined access data for aparticular account. If the access data is generated based on the actualcredentials or account information, the access data can be generated byencrypting the credentials or account information using data associatedwith the provisioning request such as a session ID associated with therequest, device ID of the communication device requesting the accessdata, application ID of the application requesting or being provisionedwith the access data, or user ID associated with the user of thecommunication device, etc., or any combination thereof. For example, acombination of one of more pieces of data from the provisioning requestcan be used to generate an encryption key that is used to encrypt theactual credentials or actual account information to generate the accessdata. In some embodiments, instead of relying on encryption, the accessdata can be generated by performing one or more mathematical operationson the actual credentials or actual account information. In someembodiments, the mathematical operations may use any combination of theprovisioning request data as operands (e.g., adding the device ID to theactual account information, etc.). The access data can also be generatedby combining different portions of the actual credentials or accountinformation with portions of any combination of the provisioning requestdata (e.g., concatenation of different digits or characters from thevarious pieces of data). In some embodiments, the access data generatedby the access data generation module 344 can be written to access datadatabase 350.

Access data database 350 can be coupled to remote server computer 300 orcan be accessible by remote server computer 300 via a separate computer.Access data database 350 can store the access data generated by remoteserver computer 300 and associate the access data with information thatmay be needed to validate the access data when the access data isreceived to request access to a resource. For example, access datadatabase 350 can store the access data together with the realcredentials or real account information for which the access datasubstitutes for. In some embodiments, if the access data is bound to aparticular communication device and/or particular application, theaccess data can be stored together with the device ID of thecommunication device or application ID of the application that wasreceived as part of the provisioning request data. In this manner , whenthe access data is received, the access data database 350 can be queriedto retrieve the device ID and/or the application ID to validate that theaccess data is being used with the proper communication device and/orapplication that was provisioned with the access data.

FIG. 4 illustrates a flow diagram illustrating a process flow accordingto some embodiments of the invention. In the process flow illustrated inFIG. 4, a first application 412 installed on a communication device maypush access data for provisioning to a second application 414 installedon the communication device. In some embodiments, the first application412 can be an application provided by a resource provider such as aweb-service application used to access a web-based service such asemail, photo-sharing, social media, etc. provided by a web-based serviceprovider, a transit application used to access a restricted areaprovided by a transit or building operator, an issuer application usedto conduct transactions using an account issued by the issuer, etc. Insome embodiments, the second application 414 is an application that canbe used to access the same resource accessible by the first application412, and can be provided by a third-party. For example, the secondapplication 414 can be a multi-functional web-service application thatcan be used to access various web-based services provided by multipleweb-based service providers (e.g., a digital assistant application thatcan access multiple email accounts of the user, a social mediaapplication that can access multiple social media accounts of the user,etc.), a multi-operator transit application that can be used to accessvarious restricted areas associated with multiple transit or buildingoperators, a digital wallet application that can be used to conducttransactions using various account issued by multiple issuers, etc.

At step S402, a user 410 of a communication device may interact with thefirst application 412 residing on the communication device to initiateprovisioning of the access data to the second application 414. The firstapplication 412 may be an application that is already familiar to theuser 410 that the user has previously used, and access data foraccessing a resource associated with the first application 412 may havealready been provisioned to the first application 412 during an initialenrollment process. If user 410 is not already logged on to the firstapplication 412, user 410 may be requested to enter login informationsuch as a PIN or password to authenticate the user. Once the user hassuccessfully logged onto the first application 412, the user can beassumed to be authenticated because the user has already gone through anID&V process during the initial enrollment process of the firstapplication 412. User 410 may then select the push-provisioning featureof the first application 412 on the user interface of the communicationdevice. The first application 412 may present a list of otherapplications that the first application 412 can provision access datato. The other applications may include the second application 414. Theuser 410 may then select the second application 414 from the list ofapplications presented by the first application 412.

At step S404, after the user 410 selects the second application 414 forprovisioning, the first application 412 may invoke and launch the secondapplication 414. The first application 412 may send a session identifier(ID) that identifies the current provisioning session to the secondapplication 414. The session ID may be a unique identifier (e.g., arandom number, counter value, etc.) that may be short lived and may beuniquely associated with the user's account associated with the firstapplication 412. In some embodiments, the session ID is generated by thefirst application 412 or can be provided to the first application 412 bythe remote server computer 430. The first application 412 may use thesession ID to track and associate the data sent by the secondapplication 414 with the user authenticated in the first application412.

At step S406, the second application 414 may request the user 410 toenter login information such as a user ID associated with the secondapplication 414 if the user has not already logged in. In someembodiments, the login request by the second application 414 may be inthe form of a “pop-up” window that may appear while the firstapplication 412 is still opened. In some embodiments, the secondapplication 414 may temporarily appear on the display of thecommunication device to accept the user's login information, and thenthe user may be returned to the first application 412. At step S408, theuser 410 may enter login information such as a user ID associated withthe second application 414 to login to the second application 414. Atstep S410, the login information is provided to the second application414.

At step S412, if the user successfully logs into the second application414, the second application 414 may send the user ID of the userassociated with the second application 414, a device ID identifying thecommunication device, and the session ID to the first application 412.The user ID may identify the user 410 that logged in to the secondapplication 414 in step S408. The device ID may be a unique device IDassociated with the communication device 410. In some embodiments, thedevice ID may uniquely identify the specific installation of the secondapplication 414 on the communication device 410. The session ID may bethe session ID received by the second application 414 from the firstapplication 412 in step S404. In some embodiments, the secondapplication 414 may also send an application ID that uniquely identifiesthe second application 414 to the first application 412.

After the second application sends the user ID, device ID, and sessionID to the first application 412, the first application may generate anencrypted provisioning request by encrypting provisioning request data.The provisioning request data being encrypted may include an account ID(e.g., a PAN) of the account for which the access data is beingprovisioned to the second application 414. The account ID is availableto the first application 412 because the account used for accessing theresource has previously been provisioned to the first application 412.The provisioning request data being encrypted may also include the, userID, and the device ID received by the first application 412 from thesecond application 414. In some embodiments, provisioning request databeing encrypted may also include the session ID and/or application ID ofthe second application 414. The encrypted provisioning request data mayalso include a timestamp indicating when the encrypted provisioningrequest was generated.

At step S414, after the first application 412 generates the encryptedprovisioning request, the first application 412 may send the encryptedprovisioning request including the encrypted provision request data tothe second application 414. In some embodiments, the first application412 may also provide an unencrypted application ID of the firstapplication 412 to the second application 414. In some embodiments, thefirst application 412 may also provide an authentication indicator thatindicates whether the user has been authenticated by the firstapplication 412.

At step S416, after the first application 412 provides the encryptedprovisioning request to the second application 414, the secondapplication 414 may send the encrypted provisioning request to theremote server computer 430 for validation of the provisioning request.In some embodiments, the second application 414 may send the unencryptedapplication ID of the first application 412 together with the encryptedprovisioning request to the remote server computer 430 such that theremote server computer 430 can retrieve the appropriate key or sharedsecret to decrypt the encrypted provisioning request. In someembodiments, the second application 414 may also send the authenticationindication to the remote server computer 430. The second application 414may send the encrypted provisioning request to the remote servercomputer 430 via an enrollment Application Program Interface (API).

Upon receiving the encrypted provisioning request, the remote servercomputer 430 may validate and/or verify the data in the encryptedprovisioning request. The remote server computer 430 may decrypt theencrypted provisioning request using a shared key or shared secret knownto the remote server computer 430 and the first application 412 toaccess the data elements (e.g., any one or more of account ID, user ID,device ID, session ID, timestamp, application ID, etc.) within theencrypted provisioning request. The remote server computer 430 canverify that the encrypted provisioning request was generated by thefirst application 412 if the remote server computer 430 can properlydecrypt the provisioning request. If the remote server computer 430verifies that the encrypted provisioning request was generated by thefirst application 412, the remote server computer 430 can continue withthe validation process because the first application 412 is a trustedapplication of the remote server computer 430. If the remote servercomputer 430 determines that the encrypted provisioning request did notoriginate from the first application 412, the remote server computer 430may terminate the provisioning session.

The remote server computer 430 may then analyze and validate the dataelements within the decrypted provisioning request. The validation mayinclude analyzing the timestamp in the decrypted provisioning data. Forexample, the timestamp may be compared to a current time at which theremote server computer 430 received the encrypted provisioning data fromthe second application 414. The remote server computer 430 may validatethe provisioning request if the difference between the current time andthe time indicated by the timestamp is less than a predefined timethreshold. For example, if the difference is less than 20 minutes, theremote server computer 430 may validate the provisioning request. Insome embodiments, if the session ID was provided by the remote servercomputer 430, the timestamp can be omitted from the provisioningrequest,. and the remote server computer 430 can determine if theprovisioning request was received within the predefined time thresholdby comparing the time at which the remoter sever computer 430 providedthe session ID to the first application 412 and the time at which theprovisioning request was received. The validation may also includedetermining whether the account ID corresponds to a valid account IDassociated with the first application 412 and the resource provider,that the user ID is a valid user ID for the second application 414,and/or that the device ID corresponds to a valid communication device onwhich the first application 412 was installed.

In some embodiments, if the authentication indicator indicating whetherthe user has been authenticated by the first application 412 is providedto the remote sever computer 430, the remote sever computer 430 candetermine whether any additional step-up authentication is required. Forexample, if the authentication process of the first application 412meets the requirements of the ID&V process of the resource provider, andthe authentication indicator indicates that the user has beensuccessfully authenticated by the first application 412, then noadditional step-up authentication may be necessary, and the remoteserver computer 430 can provision access data to the second application412 without requiring the user to manually enter any additionalauthentication information.

After the remote server computer 430 validates the provisioning request,the remote server computer 430 may generate access data that the secondapplication 414 can use to access a resource, and send the access datato the second application 414 at step S418. For example, the access datamay include user credential data that the second application 414 can useto access a service associated with the first application 412 and/or theremote server computer 430. In some embodiments, the access data mayinclude a token that is a substitute for the account ID. For example, ifthe account ID is a primary account number (PAN), the access data mayinclude a token that is a substitute for the PAN and can be used toconduct transactions. In some embodiments, the access data can be boundto the communication device 410 and may not be used with a differentcommunication device. For example, the access data can be linked to thedevice ID received in the provisioning request. In this manner, if anattempt to access the resource using the access data is received from acommunication device with a different device ID, the access to theresource can be denied. In contrast to conventional push provisioningtechniques that may not bound the access data to a device ID, thetechniques described herein can prevent the access data from being usedby an unauthorized party if the access data is intercepted by theunauthorized party during the provisioning process.

Upon receiving the access data, the second application 414 can completethe provisioning process, for example, by storing the access data in asecured memory location accessible by the second application 414.Thereafter, the second application 414 can provide the access data, forexample, to an access device to gain access to the resource associatedwith the access data. At step S420, the second application 414 may then,either directly or via the first application 412, display or present asuccess message to the user 410 via the user interface of thecommunication device 410 to indicate that the second application 414 hasbeen successfully provisioned with the access data. At step S422, thesecond application 414 can redirect the user 410 back to the firstapplication 412, and the first application 412 may also display asuccess message to indicate that the provisioning process has completed.

FIG. 5 illustrates a flow diagram illustrating a process flow 500according to some embodiments of the invention. Process flow 500 can beused for pushing access data by a first application to a secondapplication.

At block 502, a first application installed on a communication devicemay receive user input selecting an account to provision to a secondapplication installed on the communication device. At block 504, inresponse to receiving the selection of the account to provision, thefirst application may invoke the second application and send a sessionidentifier (ID) to the second application. At block 506, the secondapplication may send a user ID associated with the second application, adevice ID, and the session ID to the first application. At block 508,the first application may generate encrypted provisioning request dataincluding an account ID of the account to provision, the user ID, andthe device ID. In some embodiments, the encrypted provision request datamay also include other data elements such as the session ID. At block510, the first application may send the encrypted provisioning requestdata to the second application. At block 512, the second application maysend the encrypted provisioning request data to a remote server computerassociated with a resource provider to request access data that can beused to access the resource.

At block 514, the second application receives the access data providedby the remote server computer based on validation of the encryptedprovisioning request data. In some embodiments, the validation of theencrypted provisioning request data may include decrypting the receivedencrypted provisioning request data using a key associated with thefirst application to determine that the encrypted provisioning requestdata was generated by the first application. In some embodiments, theencrypted provisioning request data may include a timestamp, and thevalidation of the encrypted provisioning request data may includedetermining whether a difference between a time at which the encryptedprovision request data was received by the remote server computer andthe time indicated in the timestamp is within a predefined timethreshold. In some embodiments, the validation of the encryptedprovisioning request data may include determining that the account ID isa valid account ID associated with first application.

At block 516, the second application provisions the access data onto thesecond application. In some embodiments, the access data may includeuser credential data that the second application can use to access aservice associated with the first application. In some embodiments, theaccess data can be a token that is a substitute for the account ID. Insome embodiments, the access data may allow a user of the communicationdevice to access a building. In some embodiments, the access dataprovided by the remote server computer can be bound to the communicationdevice and cannot be used with a different communication device.

FIG. 6 illustrates a building access system including a communicationdevice that is provisioned with access data and that can allow a user toaccess a location such as a building, according to some embodiments. Thecommunication device 630 can been provisioned with access data accordingto the techniques described herein and be operated by a user 610. Thecommunication device 630 can interact with the access device 640 andpass access data to the access device 640 (e.g., by launching theapplication provisioned with the access data). The access device 640 maylocally verify the received access data or it may communicate with aremotely located authentication server computer (not shown). Theremotely located authentication server computer may verify that theaccess data is authentic and may transmit a signal indicating this backto the access device 640. The access device 640 may then proceed to letthe user 610 enter the building 620.

FIG. 7 illustrates a transaction processing system that includes acommunication device 710 such as a mobile device provisioned with accessdata to allow a user to access an account to pay for a good or serviceat a merchant. A user 701 that can operate a communication device 710.The user 701 may use the communication device 710 to pay for a good orservice at a merchant. The merchant may operate a merchant computer 750and/or an access device 740. The merchant may communicate with an issuercomputer 730 via an acquirer computer 720 and a payment processingnetwork 760.

The payment processing network 760 may include data processingsubsystems, networks, and operations used to support and deliverauthorization services, exception file services, and clearing andsettlement services. An exemplary payment processing network may includeVisaNet™. Payment processing networks such as VisaNet™ are able toprocess credit card transactions, debit card transactions, and othertypes of commercial transactions. VisaNet™, in particular, includes aVIP system (Visa Integrated Payments system) which processesauthorization requests and a Base II system which performs clearing andsettlement services. The payment processing network may use any suitablewired or wireless network, including the Internet.

A transaction flow using a communication device 710 at an access device740 (e.g. POS location) can be described as follows. A user 701 presentshis or her communication device 710 to an access device 740 to pay foran item or service (e.g., by launching an application provisioned withaccess data to initiate communication with access device 740). Thecommunication device 710 and the access device 740 can interact suchthat access data from the communication device 710 (e.g. PAN, a token,verification value(s), expiration date, etc.) is received by the accessdevice 740 (e.g. via contact or contactless interface). The merchantcomputer 750 may then receive this information from the access device740 via a communication interface. The merchant computer 750 may thengenerate an authorization request message that includes the informationreceived from the access device 740 (i.e. access data) along withadditional transaction information (e.g. a transaction amount, merchantspecific information, etc.) and electronically transmits thisinformation to an acquirer computer 720. The acquirer computer 720 maythen receive, process, and forward the authorization request message toa payment processing network 760 for authorization.

Prior to the occurrence of a credit or debit-card transaction, thepayment processing network 760 may have an established protocol witheach issuer on how the issuer's transactions are to be authorized. Insome cases, such as when the transaction amount is below a thresholdvalue, the payment processing network 760 may be configured to authorizethe transaction based on information that it has about the user'saccount without generating and transmitting an authorization requestmessage to the issuer computer 730. In other cases, such as when thetransaction amount is above a threshold value, the payment processingnetwork 760 may receive the authorization request message, determine theissuer associated with the access data provided by communication device710, and forward the authorization request message for the transactionto the issuer computer 730 for verification and authorization. Once thetransaction is authorized, the issuer computer 730 may generate anauthorization response message (that may include an authorization codeindicating the transaction is approved or declined) and transmit thiselectronic message via its communication interface to payment processingnetwork 760. The payment processing network 760 may then forward theauthorization response message to the acquirer computer 720, which inturn may then transmit the electronic message to comprising theauthorization indication to the merchant computer 750, and then to theaccess device 740.

At the end of the day or at some other suitable time interval, aclearing and settlement process between the merchant computer 750, theacquirer computer 720, the payment processing network 760, and theissuer computer 730 may be performed on the transaction.

FIG. 8 is a high level block diagram of a computer system that may beused to implement any of the entities or components described above. Thesubsystems shown in FIG. 8 are interconnected via a system bus 875.Additional subsystems include a printer 874, keyboard 878, system memory872, and monitor 876, which is coupled to display adapter 882.Peripherals and input/output (I/O) devices, which couple to I/Ocontroller 871. For example, the external interface 822 can be used toconnect the computer apparatus to a wide area network such as theInternet, a mouse input device, or a scanner, via an input/output port877. The interconnection via system bus 875 allows the central processor873 to communicate with each subsystem and to control the execution ofinstructions from system memory 872 or the storage device(s) 879, aswell as the exchange of information between subsystems. The systemmemory 872 and/or the storage device(s) may be embodied by acomputer-readable medium.

Embodiments of the invention have a number of advantages. For example,as noted above, in embodiments of the invention, a second application(which can be an untrusted application) may be provisioned with accessdata by making the request for the access data using a trusted firstapplication associated with an authorizing entity (e.g., remote servercomputer associated with an issuer of an account). The authorizingentity can be confident that the request for the access data isauthentic since the application is a trusted application. Also, the useof the above-described techniques allow for an improved user experiencesince a step-up authentication step may be bypassed when provisioningthe access data for use with the second application. The provisioningprocess may also include providing a device identifier to theauthorizing entity when requesting the access data. In this manner, theaccess data can be bound to the communication device, and cannot be usedwith a different device.

It should be understood that the present invention as described abovecan be implemented in the form of control logic using computer softwarein a modular or integrated manner. Based on the disclosure and teachingsprovided herein, a person of ordinary skill in the art will know andappreciate other ways and/or methods to implement the present inventionusing hardware and a combination of hardware and software.

Any of the software components or functions described in thisapplication may be implemented as software code to be executed by aprocessor using any suitable computer language such as, for example,Java, C++ or Perl using, for example, conventional or object-orientedtechniques. The software code may be stored as a series of instructions,or commands on a computer-readable medium, such as a random accessmemory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a magnetic medium such as ahard-drive or a floppy disk, or an optical medium such as a CD-ROM. Anysuch computer-readable medium may reside on or within a singlecomputational apparatus, and may be present on or within differentcomputational apparatuses within a system or network.

While certain exemplary embodiments have been described in detail andshown in the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that suchembodiments are merely illustrative of and not intended to berestrictive of the invention, and that this invention is not to belimited to the specific arrangements and constructions shown anddescribed, since various other modifications may occur to those withordinary skill in the art.

It should be understood that the methods and processes in accordancewith some embodiments may perform one or more of the steps in adifferent order than those described herein, include one or moreadditional steps not specially described, omit one or more steps,combine one or more steps into a single step, split up one or more stepsinto multiple steps, and/or any combination thereof.

It should also be understood that one or more features from anyembodiment may be combined with one or more features of any otherembodiment without departing from the scope of the invention.

As used herein, the use of “a”, “an” or “the” is intended to mean “atleast one”, unless specifically indicated to the contrary.

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 21. A method comprising: receiving, by a servercomputer from a first application via a second application on a mobiledevice, encrypted provisioning request data including an account ID ofan account to provision, a user ID, and a device ID in encrypted form;validating, by the server computer, the encrypted provisioning requestdata; and transmitting, by the server computer to the second applicationon the mobile device, access data based on validation of the encryptedprovisioning request data, wherein the second application stores theaccess data.
 22. The method of claim 21, wherein the first applicationreceived user input selecting the account to provision to the secondapplication, and in response to receiving the selection of the accountto provision, the first application invoked the second application, andthe second application sent the user ID, the user ID associated with thesecond application, and the device ID to the first application, whichgenerated the encrypted provisioning request data.
 23. The method ofclaim 21, wherein validating the encrypted provisioning request dataincludes decrypting the received encrypted provisioning request datausing a key associated with the first application to determine that theencrypted provisioning request data was generated by the firstapplication.
 24. The method of claim 21, wherein the encryptedprovisioning request data further includes a timestamp, and validatingthe encrypted provisioning request data includes determining whether adifference between a time at which the encrypted provision request datawas received by the server computer and the time indicated in thetimestamp is within a predefined time threshold.
 25. The method of claim21, wherein validating the encrypted provisioning request data includesdetermining that the account ID is a valid account ID associated withfirst application.
 26. The method of claim 21, wherein the access dataincludes user credential data that the second application uses to accessa service associated with the first application.
 27. The method of claim21, wherein the first application is an issuer application and thesecond application is an digital wallet application.
 28. The method ofclaim 21, wherein the access data allows a user of the mobile device toaccess a building.
 29. The method of claim 21, wherein the access datais a token that is a substitute for the account ID.
 30. The method ofclaim 21, wherein validating the encrypted provisioning request dataincludes decrypting the received encrypted provisioning request datausing a key associated with the first application to determine that theencrypted provisioning request data was generated by the firstapplication, and wherein the method further comprises: receiving, anapplication ID of the first application, and then using the applicationID to retrieve the key.
 31. A server computer comprising: a processor;and a non-transitory computer readable medium, the non-transitorycomputer readable medium comprising code, executable by the processor,for implementing a method comprising receiving, from a first applicationvia a second application on a mobile device, encrypted provisioningrequest data including an account ID of an account to provision, a userID, and a device ID in encrypted form, validating the encryptedprovisioning request data, and transmitting, to the second applicationon the mobile device, access data based on validation of the encryptedprovisioning request data, wherein the second application stores theaccess data.
 32. The server computer of claim 31, wherein the firstapplication received user input selecting the account to provision tothe second application, and in response to receiving the selection ofthe account to provision, the first application invoked the secondapplication, and the second application sent the user ID, the user IDassociated with the second application, and the device ID to the firstapplication, which generated the encrypted provisioning request data.33. The server computer of claim 31, wherein validating the encryptedprovisioning request data includes decrypting the received encryptedprovisioning request data using a key associated with the firstapplication to determine that the encrypted provisioning request datawas generated by the first application.
 34. The server computer of claim31, wherein the encrypted provisioning request data further includes atimestamp, and validating the encrypted provisioning request dataincludes determining whether a difference between a time at which theencrypted provision request data was received by the server computer andthe time indicated in the timestamp is within a predefined timethreshold.
 35. The server computer of claim 31, wherein validating theencrypted provisioning request data includes determining that theaccount ID is a valid account ID associated with first application. 36.The server computer of claim 31, wherein the access data includes usercredential data that the second application uses to access a serviceassociated with the first application.
 37. The server computer of claim31, wherein the first application is an issuer application and thesecond application is an digital wallet application.
 38. The servercomputer of claim 31, wherein the access data allows a user of themobile device to access a building.
 39. The server computer of claim 31,wherein the access data is a token that is a substitute for the accountID.
 40. The server computer of claim 31, wherein validating theencrypted provisioning request data includes decrypting the receivedencrypted provisioning request data using a key associated with thefirst application to determine that the encrypted provisioning requestdata was generated by the first application, and wherein the methodfurther comprises: receiving, an application ID of the firstapplication, and then using the application ID to retrieve the key.